The drive is 60GB. You are saying that the extended partition should consume all of the space that may be parceled out as logical partitions, Right? I am going to try it and see.
Thanks, Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Disk Corruption > Quoted ------------- > Here is the information from fdisk -l > device boot Start End Blocks ID System > /dev/hda1 * 1 2434 19551073+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hdb1 * 1 62 497983+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 63 86 996030 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdb3 187 3921 30001387+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb4 3922 4164 1951897+ 5 Extended > /dev/hdb5 3922 4164 1951866 83 Linux > > --------------- > > Early on you said you had 27Gb free. Your extended partition is only 2Gb. > Before you go any further, I think it would be good to use fdisk to delete > /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb4. Remake /dev/hdb4 as extended to use the remainder of > the drive. Then make /dev/hdb5 again and reboot to see if it works. > > If you don't show more than 2 Gb for the extended, then something may be wrong > that is not showing your entire drive. How big is that drive? > > As it is, this is showing that the logical partition is using the whole > extended - 2 Gb worth. > > Anita > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
